Zachary Briggs Earns 'Best of Festival' Award for Park Productions Film

2015 Mar 18

Zachary Briggs, a senior integrated marketing communications major in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, earned the "Best of Festival" King Foundation Award in the student documentary competition at the 2015 Broadcast Education Association's Festival of the Media Arts.

During winter 2014, Briggs worked as the graphic designer on the film entitled "Water in the Cloud Forest," in collaboration with Ithaca College's Park Productions - a student-run film production company - and community organizers, educators and farmers in Intag, Ecuador. The film demonstrates how the cloud forest's entire ecosystem depends on clean water for survival and would suffer significant damage should this unique watershed be subject to mining, pesticides and deforestation.

"Water in the Cloud Forest" was one of the 17 films chosen out of 1,300 student and faculty submissions to receive the "Best of Festival" award, the top award given at the Broadcast Education Association Festival.